Aayush Gupta

Generalist

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

This will move you to tears. Powerful. Emotional. Beautiful. Spirited. Patriotic.

Kargil’s Team Stringmo Sisters sing in support of Indian Army on the eve of 27th Kargil Vijay Diwas. 🇮🇳

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

Impatience with actions, patience with results.

@naval

[Sonam Mahajan @AsYouNotWish]

Watching the events of the past few weeks, I have come away with one overwhelming feeling. Despite all our flaws, and despite the mistakes and excesses on every side, India remains a remarkably resilient democracy.

We witnessed confrontations, emotions running high, barricades being breached, policemen coming under attack, and a movement that increasingly attracted political actors with agendas extending far beyond the students’ immediate concerns. At the same time, many voices across the border appeared positively jubilant at the turmoil in India, with some openly urging our students to escalate the agitation and bring the government down.

What struck me most was the irony. Almost all of those celebrating unrest in India have no courage to direct the same energy towards questioning Pakistan’s unelected centres of power or General Asim Munir, the country’s de facto ruler. Nor do they appear equally vocal about the democratic rights of religious minorities, including Hindus and Christians in Pakistan, who continue to face discrimination, forced conversions, extremist violence and insecurity.

Yet India held. Our institutions held. Our people held. For all the anger, confrontation, attacks on policemen, and damage to public property, the crisis ultimately found a democratic resolution. Not a single life was lost during this agitation despite weeks of extraordinary tension. This is no small feat, and a testament to the restraint shown by all sides when the situation could easily have taken a far darker turn. Looking around our neighbourhood, one is reminded that such outcomes cannot be taken for granted.

India is far from perfect, and it should never stop striving to do better. There are legitimate questions to be asked of the government, just as there are of those who sought to exploit a genuine students’ movement for their own political ends. But even with all its imperfections, we remain a country where hope survives, where governments can still course-correct, and where democratic processes still prevail over chaos. That is an India I will never apologise for believing in.

Even the United States, which often presents itself as a global champion of democracy and human rights, has witnessed episodes of civil unrest that ended in bloodshed or a far more forceful state response. In our own neighbourhood, Bangladesh descended into political chaos, while in Pakistan, more than 70 civilians have been killed for staging peaceful demonstrations in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) over the past two months. Against that backdrop, India’s handling of this crisis stands out. It reflects not perfection, but the restraint, foresight, composure and democratic maturity of our institutions and leadership under extraordinary pressure. That, too, deserves acknowledgement.

[Amish Tripathi | Author | Broadcasting | History @authoramish]

Our Children Are Not Cockroaches.

They are our future. They are Mother India’s future. https://t.co/lumiKSqzk3

[Stunna ⛧ @stunnaclips]

1st in my bloodline to witness sumn like this.

[Rey @RaniChatterjeee]

I love women and the insane aura they carryyyy

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

The big lesson from AI is that everything is code. A slide deck is code. Design is code. That cool promo video? Code. Excel automation? Code. The universe? Probably made of code too.

[Vishal Ganesan @vjgtweets]

I haven't been following the India protests that closely, but it seems to me that they reflect a basic contradiction in India's political economy that will naturally get more acute as the country grows economically. At a very basic level, the path to political power in India is through the rural poor and the farmers. This plays out at the central and state level, with governments at every level regularly extracting resources from surplus-producing urban areas to fund welfare for the hinterlands. As long as this basic political logic remains, Indian politicians will neglect the aspirations of the electorally insignificant urban middle class who form the bulk of the protesters.

The BJP has somewhat successfully bridged this divide through Hindutva politics: When it comes to economic policy they double down on rural development (water connections, electricity, welfare etc.) while pushing cultural and religious nationalism to satisfy the ascendant Hindu middle class that has the luxury of voting on ideological lines. But this is not sustainable in the long run. As the urban middle class grows, the demand for greater economic opportunity, a better standard of living, and the promise of a better future will naturally increase in intensity.

Retorts about the depredations of the Congress-era, even if true, are little consolation to the young who have only known BJP-led India. The reflexive tendency of BJP supporters to see protests as a "foreign conspiracy" reflects a basic inability to see the world through the eyes of others. That there are bad actors is no doubt true, but this does not detract from the legitimacy of the complaints about corruption, stagnation, urban misgovernance etc.

Modi and the BJP have spent years referring to their era of electoral dominance as a "golden age" of Indian economic and cultural regeneration. Turns out when you set expectations high, people will expect you meet them. Who would have thought?

[Aravind @aravind]

And PV Sindhu won Japan open for India just a while ago.

[Aayush Gupta @AayushGSays]

Miles, status, points

[Ashwin @PointsPro]

🚨 Free Airline status with higher Marriott Bonvoy status

Marriott Bonvoy elites can get complimentary airline status.

And unlike Accor, it is not tied to one partnership. We can hold all statuses from this. 🔥

1⃣ United
MileagePlus Premier Silver status (Star Alliance Silver)

2⃣ Air Canada
Aeroplan 25K Status (Star Alliance Silver)

3⃣ Japan Airlines
JMB Crystal (oneworld Ruby)

*All the above three are only for Titanium and Ambassador elites.

4⃣ Singapore Airlines
No straight status but a status match

🔸 Platinum and above: SQ Gold when taking 4 flights in 6 months
🔸 Gold: SQ silver when taking 4 flights in 6 months

5⃣ Lufthansa
No straight status but tier points towards status

🔸 Platinum and above (also LT Gold): 40 status points per stay up to 120 points per year. Frequent Traveler status requires 650 so we are are 18% there

6⃣ Cathay Pacific (no longer possible)
Initially when CX had the partnership, Marriott Platinum and above members got CX Silver (Gold with 300 status points in 12 months)

Apart from the above, we also have Emirates (and for a limited time United) wherein there is dual earn. 👍

[Aayush Gupta @AayushGSays]

Gym, push-up

[The Gym Society @gymsociety]

Most people have never done a real push-up. Here’s exactly what proper form looks like - and why yours is probably wrong.

[Aayush Gupta @AayushGSays]

Gym, shoulder

[Muscle Freak @AwakenTheAlphaa]

Wrestling Exercises 💪🏻 💪🏻

[Aayush Gupta @AayushGSays]

ai, code

[Vijay Shekhar Sharma @vijayshekhar]

Too good ! Next level of coding needs served @vorfluxai

[Aayush Gupta @AayushGSays]

gps

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

GPS is in 6 billion devices.
Almost nobody knows how it actually works.
Here's the full story, including the 5 problems engineers had to solve first. [1/7]

[Aayush Gupta @AayushGSays]

insurance

[Ira Puranik @PuranikIra]

"You didn't disclose X, so we're rejecting your claim for Y."

It's the most-used rejection in Indian health insurance, and most people give up right here. Even celebrities are not immune from this.

If you've faced this, or are facing it now, here's what the law actually says.

A pre-existing disease is a condition that existed BEFORE the policy. If it was diagnosed after you bought the cover, like with these ulcers, it isn't pre-existing, and non-disclosure can't apply. Your duty to disclose ends the day the policy is issued.

And the burden of proving you knowingly hid a material fact is on the insurer, not you. Asking you to produce a certificate proving you never had those ulcers is the onus flipped backwards. That's their job to prove, not yours to disprove.

The Supreme Court settled this in Manmohan Nanda v. United India Assurance (2021): once a policy is issued, the insurer must prove suppression, and repudiating a mediclaim on a pre-existing-disease ground without that proof is illegal. Quote it in your appeal.

Put it in writing. A formal appeal to the insurer's Grievance Redressal Officer, logged in parallel on IRDAI's Bima Bharosa portal. If they reject it or stay silent for 30 days, escalate to the Insurance Ombudsman, which is free and whose award binds the insurer.

And if you've held the policy 5+ continuous years, they can't contest on non-disclosure at all, only proven fraud.

[pj @BeingPractical]

Founder's life is hard!

My home loan application got rejected by a top private bank - just because I am a founder.

> 25 years+ of customer
> ~800 CIBIL Score
> 5x-6x of loan value in relationship with this bank
> may be in top 0.1% of its customers by assets
> and irony is this bank felicitated me as top fintech innovator or something like that.. 😛

They can give loan to team members our company employs, but not me - because as founder I'm high risk category.

Damn... lagta hai office mein hi rehna padega zindagi bhar... 🫤😭

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

A team been down 2-0 in a football match on 10,318 occasions. Only 16 have come back (0.16%) to win at end of 90 minutes. Argentina only one to do it in World Cup.

Messi in tears after because he knew he was 10 minutes away from end of World Cup career before insane comeback.

[Aayush Gupta @AayushGSays]

Gym

[Bloom Her Life @glowstronggirl]

Margot Robbie Barbie workout for a flat stomach + tiny waist 🎀✨

[Aayush Gupta @AayushGSays]

@MrBeast 3,000,000

[Aayush Gupta @AayushGSays]

Gym

[Muscle Forge @LearnLoopz]

Go find your broomstick and try these 3 shoulder mobility exercises.